Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (born 21 October 1990) is a French chess

Chess

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 Grandmaster and the 2009 World Junior Chess Champion

World Junior Chess Championship

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Grandmaster norms

He completed his final grandmaster norm

Grandmaster norm

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 at age 14 years, 4 months, in 2005.

His norms were obtained in the following tournaments:

• Paris Championship 2004: finished 3rd with 6½ points from nine rounds and a performance of 2703
• NAO GM Tournament 2004: won the tournament with 6/9 and got a performance of 2605
• GM Tournament of Évry: from 21 to 27 February 2005, finished second with 7½ and a performance of 2712

Rating

Vachier-Lagrave's FIDE rating in July 2008 was 2681 http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=623539. According to the live top rating site http://chess.liverating.org/ his live rating on August 16, 2009 was 2716.5, making him virtually number 24th in the world. In the official rating list of October 2008 he crossed the "2700" threshold at 2716 points.

His rating on the November 2009 list was 2718 (23rd in the world and third in the top 20 juniors).

French Championships

• Montluçon 1997: at the age of 6 Champion of U-8 category, performance of 1643
• Romans-sur-Isère 1999: at the age of 8 Champion of U-10 category
• Pau 2000: at the age of 9 Champion of U-12 category
• Hyères 2002: at the age of 11 Champion of U-16 category
• Grand-Bornand 2003: at the age of 12 Vice-Champion of U-18 category
• Reims 2004: at the age of 13 Champion of U-20 (juniors) category with a TPR of 2604 (8 points out of 9 with 2/3 against masters)
• Chartres 2005: finished 3rd at the Men French Championship with a TPR of 2660
• Besançon 2006 : finished 5th at the Men French Championship with 6 points out of 11 and a TPR of 2608

World Youth Championships

• Oropesa del Mar (Spain) 2000: 3rd in U-10 with 8½ points out of 11
• Oropesa-del-Mar (Spain) 2001: 3rd in U-12 with 8 points out of 11
• Halkidiki (Greece) 2003: 2nd in the U-14 group with 9 points out of 11
• Belfort (France) 2005: 3rd in the U-16 group with 8½ out of 11
• Puerto Madryn (Argentina) 2009: 1st in the World Junior Chess Championship
  World Junior Chess Championship
  The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....
  
   with 10½ out of 13

Teams

Vachier-Lagrave played in the U16 French team championship since 1997. Team results include:

• U16 French championship 2004-2005: first board for NAO Chess Club, 7 points from 7 games. NAO-CC earned the title
• U16 French championship 2005-2006: first board for NAO Chess Club, 7 points from 7 games. NAO-CC again earned the title
• Top 16 2005-2006: NAO team, 6½ points from 8 games. NAO-CC won the championship for the fourth time in a row.

Recent tournaments

• "Aeroflot" tournament, Moscow 2006: played the A1 tournament, reserved for players having a rating superior to 2550. He gained 6 points out of 9 and finished 6th with a TPR of 2775
• Young Masters, Lausanne 2006: being the youngest player invited, won the tournament with a TPR of 2630
• Corus tournament B
  Corus chess tournament
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  , Wijk aan Zee 2007: finished 5th with 8 points out of 13
• Winner of 2007 Paris Championship with 7 points out of 9
• Winner of 2007 French Championship
  French Chess Championship
  The French Chess Championship is the annual, national chess tournament of France. It was officially first played in 1923after the formation of the Fédération Française des Echecs in 1921. The first unofficial national tournament was played in 1880, in the Café de la Régence, where further edition...
  
   after beating GM Vladislav Tkachiev
  Vladislav Tkachiev
  -Biography:In 1982, he moved to Kazakhstan with his parents and learnt to play chess a year later. A winner of the Kazakhstani Youth Championship in 1985, he went on to represent Kazakhstan at the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila and was twice the national champion....
  
   in tiebreak match. In the main tournament he collected 7.5 out of 11
• Winner of 2009 Biel tournament
  Biel chess tournament
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   with 6 points out of 10 ahead of Morozevich and Ivanchuk.
• 2010: Part of a 'world team' against Magnus Carlsen
  Magnus Carlsen
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External links

• Interview ChessBase.com